Add Continuous Integration to the Blogging App. Deploy to Heroku using MongoDB database at mLab.

From Thinkful course Node 2.3.4.

Faker documentation

Final Result

My Git repository

Git Readme

Deployed to Heroku at

Test GET at Heroku

Getting Started

Create Github repository: blog-challenge-tests-ci

cd MyDevelopment/github/thinkful
create-repo blog-challenge-tests-ci

Copy source files from:

/Users/jv/Desktop/MyDevelopment/github/thinkful/mongoose-challenge-with-tests

to:
/Users/jv/Desktop/MyDevelopment/github/thinkful/blog-challenge-tests-ci

Install dependencies:

cd /Users/jv/Desktop/MyDevelopment/github/thinkful/blog-challenge-tests-ci
rm -rf node_modules
npm install

To run the tests:

npm test

Commit to repository

Configure Travis CI

.travis.yml

language: node_js
node_js: node
services:
- mongodb

Git commit but do not push

git add .
git commit -m "travis"

Add Travis CI Service in Github

https://github.com/johnvincentio/blog-challenge-tests-ci

Settings, Integration & Services
Add service, Travis CI
Add Service (green button at bottom)

Configure Travis

Travis Dashboard
https://travis-ci.org/

click icon (top-right)

Sync Account (top-right)

Check:
johnvincentio/blog-challenge-tests-ci

Git commit to remote

git push

Verify Building

Travis Dashboard
https://travis-ci.org/

Select:
johnvincentio/blog-challenge-tests-ci

Deploy to Heroku

Login to Travis CI

cd /Users/jv/Desktop/MyDevelopment/github/thinkful/blog-challenge-tests-ci
travis login --auto-password

To deploy to Heroku:

travis setup heroku
    "return" to the questions.

git diff (see differences)
    note deploy block added to .travis.yml

Create app on Heroku

heroku create johnvincentio-blog-app

Notice

johnvincentio-blog-app
https://johnvincentio-blog-app.herokuapp.com/
https://git.heroku.com/johnvincentio-blog-app.git

Push to Heroku:

git push heroku master

Start up a dyno

heroku ps:scale web=1

Edit .travis.yml

deploy:
    app: johnvincentio-blog-app

Git commit changes to master

MongoDB, Mongoose, mLab, and Heroku

At mLab, create new database: blog-challenge-tests-ci

mongo ds021289.mlab.com:21289/blog-challenge-tests-ci -u <dbuser> -p <dbpassword>

mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@ds021289.mlab.com:21289/blog-challenge-tests-ci

Create user: jvtest

Import data:

cd MyDevelopment/github/thinkful/blog-challenge-tests-ci/data

mongoimport --db blog-challenge-tests-ci --collection blogs --drop --file seed-data.json --host ds021289.mlab.com --port 21289  -u jvtest -p <password>

Note, local import

mongoimport --db blogDB --collection blogs --drop --file seed-data.json

Connect:

mongo ds021289.mlab.com:21289/blog-challenge-tests-ci -u jvtest -p <password>
use blog-challenge-tests-ci
db.blogs.find()

Connect using Studio3T

• Start Studio3T
• New Connection

Server
Name: ds021289.mlab.com
Type: Direct Connection
Server: ds021289.mlab.com
Port: 21289

Authentication, Basic
User name: jvtest
DB: blog-challenge-tests-ci

Server
Test Connection

OK>

Connect

will find blog-challenge-tests-ci etc

Select Connection (left menu), right click, IntelliShell

use blog-challenge-tests-ci
db.blogs.findOne()

Configure Heroku

From the Heroku dashboard

select: johnvincentio-blog-app

Settings, Reveal Config Vars

Key: DATABASE_URL

Value: mongodb://jvtest:<dbpassword>@ds021289.mlab.com:21289/blog-challenge-tests-ci

Test Heroku App

Open App, adding /blog (to test)

https://blog-challenge-tests-ci.herokuapp.com/blog

should retrieve some blogs data